Mercy Quotes

It was no time for mercy, it was time to terminate with extreme prejudice.

Mercy is a source of life because we breathe our own spirits through it into the lives of others.

I know that the Kaiser incarnates all there is of brute force and of murder. And yet I would not, if...

I’ve always been bad. Probably I shall be bad again, punished again. But the worse I am, the more I ...

...if He made us, He must know He is to blame when He has made us weak or evil. And He must understa...

The great strength she had used in the old days to conquer and subdue, to win her will and to defend...

You do not beg the sun for mercy.-Maud'dib's Travail from The Stilgar Commentary

[The] self overcoming of justice: one knows the beautiful name it has given itself--mercy...

There are two ways of knowing how good God is: one is never to lose Him, and the other is to lose Hi...

This heart still believes that love and mercy still exist.

The willingness to forgive is a sign of spiritual and emotional maturity. It is one of the great vir...

You can’t conceive, my child, nor can I or anyone the … appalling … strangeness of the mercy of God.

You cannot conceive, nor can I, of the appalling strangeness of the mercy of God.

...Nature has its unexpected and unappreciated mercies.

Being all fashioned of the self-same dust. Let us be merciful as well as just.

Night is a time of rigor, but also of mercy. There are truths which one can see only when it’s dark

It is bad enough to be unconverted and going to hell. It is even worse to say, “I know it and will n...

Deserves it! I daresay he does. Many that live deserve death. And some that die deserve life. Can yo...

What a pity that Bilbo did not stab that vile creature, when he had a chance!'Pity? It was Pity that...

Many that live deserve death. And some that die deserve life. Can you give it to them? Then do no be...

I know you love me. The question is, how much?

Three months ago, if you asked me, I would have told you that if you really loved someone, you’d let...

God preordained, for his own glory and the display of His attributes of mercy and justice, a part of...

God tolerates even our stammering, and pardons our ignorance whenever something inadvertently escape...

Prayers will never reach God unless they are founded on free mercy.

And now without redemption all mankindMust have been lost, adjudged to death and hellBy doom severe,...

No human face is exactly the same in its lines on each side, no leaf perfect in its lobes, no branch...

Computers are like Old Testament gods lots of rules and no mercy.

The fundamental human experience is that of compassion.

The truth doesn't have to do with cruelty, the truth has to do with mercy.

there is a God, there always has been. I see him here, in the eyes of the people in this [hospital] ...

His lines had been honed over centuries, passed down through generations, for poor people needed cer...

When man has love he is no longer at the mercy of forces greater than himself, for he, himself, beco...

Keep out of this," Lucian said. "I'm not smiting anybody.""You're showing mercy." Catch-a-Tick nodde...

I believe in peace. I believe in mercy.

She knows herself to be at the mercy of events, and she knows by now that events have no mercy.

Yet each flower, each twig, each pebble, shines as though illuminated from within, as once before, o...

The way to forget our miseries, is to remember the God of our mercies.

If we have, through grace, an interest in Him who is the Fountain, we may rejoice in him when the st...

Man of an hard heart! Hear me, Proud, Stern, and Cruel! You could have saved me; you could have rest...

Among the attributes of God although they are all equal mercy shines with even more brilliancy tha...

Never in my life had I felt so tangibly and with such astonishment that hate, by passing successivel...

What is the meaning of it all, of this...of this world?'Mystery', I heard in my thoughts, or perhaps...

I don't want to be at the mercy of my emotions. I want to use them, to enjoy them, and to dominate t...

In the violent scorn of her revolted pride, of her indignant honor, had she forgotten a lowlier yet ...

Never beg for mercy. Accept that you have failed. Begging is for dogs and humans.

But how to explain suffering because of a man? It's not explainable. With that kind of suffering, a ...

There was nothing for it now but to throw himself on Campos's mercy, and it had been Mr. Rebeck's ex...

The light of love proper to faith can illumine the question of our own time-concerning truth. Truth,...

We cannot become starched Christians, those overeducated Christians who speak of theological matters...

For the Church, the option for the poor is primarily a theological category rather than a cultural, ...

Mary was able to turn a stable into a home for Jesus, with poor swaddling clothes and an abundance o...

Will we let ourselves become a Church that calls and welcomes sinners with open arms, that gives cou...

There is a Marian "style" to the Church's work of evangelization. Whenever we look to Mary, we come ...

As religious leaders, we are called to be true "people of dialogue," to cooperate in building peace ...

We need to let ourselves be evangelized by the poor. They have much to teach us.

Mercy will always be greater than any sin, no one can put a limit on the love of the all-forgiving G...

Sin is more than a stain. Sin is a wound; it needs to be treated, healed. The place where my encount...

We need to remember and remind ourselves where we come from, what we are, our nothingness.

Woe to the soul which God rejoiceth to punish! . . . . Is it not a terrible thing to a wretched soul...

Part of a moon was falling down the west,Dragging the whole sky with it to the hills.Its light poure...

I have a secret passion for mercy. But justice is what keeps happening to people.

Let us eat and drink neither forgetting death unduly nor remembering it. The Lord hath mercy on whom...

Let us eat and drink neither forgetting death unduly nor remembering it. The Lord hath mercy on whom...

Let us eat and drink neither forgetting death unduly nor remembering it. The Lord hath mercy on whom...

Let us eat and drink neither forgetting death unduly nor remembering it. The Lord hath mercy on whom...

Let us eat and drink neither forgetting death unduly nor remembering it. The Lord hath mercy on whom...

Let us eat and drink neither forgetting death unduly nor remembering it. The Lord hath mercy on whom...

Let us eat and drink neither forgetting death unduly nor remembering it. The Lord hath mercy on whom...

Let us eat and drink neither forgetting death unduly nor remembering it. The Lord hath mercy on whom...

One must always be prepared to switch sides with justice, that fugitive of the winning camp.

And there he would either be mercifully annihilated or live forever, insane and yet conscious inside...

…but I guess you can never wash anything completely away, not from this dark glass of a world, and n...

Even in the most compassionate, humankind's limited scope of mercy was reserved for their own.

Karsa's expression soured. 'When I began this journey, I was young. I believed in one thing. Ibeliev...

One day a year let’s all pretendthat death is tucked up, fast asleep.That no lives meet a tragic end...

The world will give you that once in awhile, a brief timeout; the boxing bell rings and you go to yo...

10 percent of any population is cruel, no matter what, and 10 percent is merciful, no matter what, a...

The profundity of Christianity is that Christ is both our redeemer and our judge, not that one is ou...

Don't kill me,' said the knight. 'I yield. I yield. You can't kill a man at mercy.'Lancelot put up h...

YOU HAVE TO START OUT LEARNING TO BELIEVE THE LITTLE LIES."So we can believe the big ones?"YES. JUST...

We must approach our meditation realizing that 'grace,' 'mercy,' and 'faith' are not permanent inali...

To desire Him to be merciful to us is to acknowledge Him as God. To seek His pity when we deserve no...

Kill the king but spare the man.

Sorrow and profound fatigue are at the heart of Dewey's silence. It had been his ambition to learn "...

It's hard to know what's right in this life,' she said. 'We do what we can, but what we really need ...

It's hard to know what's right in this life,' she said. 'We do what we can, but what we really need ...

It is better to risk saving a guilty person than to condemn an innocent one.

The time's gone by for sentiment and all that foolery. Mercy's all very well but after all it's just...

Where mercy, love, and pity dwell, there God is dwelling too.

I would make this war as severe as possible, and show no symptoms of tiring till the South begs for ...

People who excuse their faults and claim they didn't deserved to be punished - there are lots of the...

The image titled “The Homeless, Psalm 85:10,” featured on the cover of ELEMENTAL, can evoke multiple...

Just above our terror, the stars painted this storyin perfect silver calligraphy. And our souls, too...

Love, Mercy, and Grace, sisters all, attend your wounds of silence and hope.

I have always found that mercy bears richer fruits than strict justice.

With malice toward none, with charity for all, with firmness in the right as God gives us to see the...

Too much mercy... often resulted in further crimes which were fatal to innocent victims who need not...

I was thinking, that when my time comes, I should be sorry if the only plea I had to offer was that ...

The tears of Christ are the pity of God. The gentleness of Jesus is the long-suffering of God. The t...